Daily Archives: November 1, 2010

As mentioned in an article for Rue89, “A Dictionary of Maqiao” just won the Newman prize in the United States.

This surprising book led to some turmoil when it was published in China in 1996 (1). Two Chinese critics explained that this dictionary is a plagiarism of “The Khazar Dictionary” by the Serbo-Croatian writer Milorad Pavic (born 1925), a book published in 1985 and translated into Chinese ..